Improvement in wheels for vehicles



I E D 1:2 TAT E S CHRISTOPHER eoDDEN, or PATERSoN, NEw- JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHEELS FOR VEHICLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59.385, dated November6, 1866.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, CHRISTOPHER GODDEN, of Paterson, in the countyofPassaic and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Wheels for Vehicles; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe same, referencebeing had to the accompanyingdrawings, making a part of thisspecification, in Which- Figure l is a vertical section of a wagon orcarriage wheel constructed according to my invention, and taken at rightangles to the axle upon which it is situated. Fig. 2 is a transversesection of the same, taken in the line :v :c of Fig. I.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in bothfigures.

The object of this invention is to enable the spokes of a carriage orother similar wheel to be easily and conveniently removed and replacedwithout removing the tire or felly from the same, so that new spokes maybe readily substituted in the place of old ones or in the place of thosebroken or otherwise injured; also, to render such wheels stronger andmore durable than those heretofore devised; and, furthermore, topi-Ovidefor the more effective retention of the axle-boxes in their places thanin the wheels in common use.

The invention consists in a novel construction of a` wheel whereby theseobjects are effect-ually secured.

To enable others to understand the nature and construction of myinvention, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the drawings.

The hub of the wheel is constructed with a hollow outer shell, A, whichmay be lnade of cast or malleableized iron. The rearmost p0rtion of thishub is enlarged, as shown at a in Fig. 2, in order that a concentricseries of sockets or recesses, designed for the reception of theinnermost ends of the spokes, may be formed in the front or outermostside of the said portion, the rearmost sides of the said sockets beingclosed by shoulders a', andthe bottoms thereof being made sloping orinclined, as shown at b. The forward portion, b, of the shell A, or, inother words, that portion in front ofthe sockets just described, may beof cylindrical forni, and is furnished with a screwthread, as shown at cin the aforesaid Fig. 2. The innermost ends of the spokes c are placedin the sockets formed in the front side of the enlarged portion of theshell A, and are conned therein by means of a collar, e, which is fittedupon the screw-thread c', as will be presently fully described.

B indicates the telly, which is intended to be made of malleableizedcast-iron or wroughtiron, and which is made of any desirednumber ofsections united at their ends by projec tions d', of which there is oneformed upon one end of each section, and fitted into a suitable hole orrecess formed in that end of the adjacent section in contact therewith,as 'shown in Fig. 1. A deep rectangular or other properly-shaped grooveis formed in the outer side of each Section of the felly B, and has ttedsnugly into it a section of a wooden rim or ll'- ing, as shown at f, andoutside of these wooden sections j' and upon the circumference of themetallic felly B is iitted a tire, C, of wroughtiron or other suitablematerial. Formed in the inner circumference of the felly B, at suitabledistances apart, are a number of recesses, g, whichare designed toreceive the outermost ends of the spokes c, the said outer ends of theSpokes c being inserted in these recesses g, with their lower endsresting upon the inclined bottoms b ofthe sockets formed (ashereinbefore set forth) in the shell A; The collar o is then screwed uptoward the shouldersc, and thus forces the inner ends of the spokes backupon the inclinedbottoms b of the sockets, so that the said spokes areforced outward longitudinally toward and against the felly B, and thusrmly brace the same, at the sametime that theinner ends, being claspedbetween the collar @and the shoulders a', are rmly and securely held inthe said Sockets, so that by these means a very strong and rigidconstruction of the wheel is secured, and, in consequence, the wheelisrendered much more durable and less liable to get out of order thanthose in which the spokes are secured in place in the usual manner, theadditional advantage being also obtained that one or more spokes may bequickly and conveniently removed or replaced for repairs or otherpurposes without necessitating the removal of either the tire or fellyof the Wheel.

D indicates thejournal-box, whichis situated longitudinally within theshell A, with its rear or innermost end supported in an annular re-vcess, t', formed in the rearmost end ot' the aforesaid shell, around theopening` through which the axle E is passed into the hub, While theoutermost end oi' the said journal-box is fitted into aninwardly-projecting lange, m, formed upon the interior of the shell nearthe outer end thereof, there being', furthermore, anoutwardly-projecting annular flange, fn', formed upon the outermost endof the said journalbox D, which is fitted snugly against the outer sideof the flange on, and firmly attached thereto by set-screws r, thussecurely fastening the journal-box D in its place within the axle. Thehub may be held upon the axle E by a nut, s, or by any other suitablemeans. The space between the journal-box D and the shell A may be filledWith oil or other lubricating material, which passes to the axle orjournal E through small holes or orces formed in one side of theaforesaid journal-box'D.

What l claim as new, and desire to secure

